The Music Man - Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett

The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill (Robert Preston reprising the role he created on the Great White Way), as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones), the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall.

STARRING: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard

DIRECTOR: Morton daCosta

RUNNING TIME: 151 minutes

COUNTRY: United States

LANGUAGE: English